Why Study Science at Royal Holloway?	Links to Science Departments	Science Outreach	Key Faculty Contacts

"Royal Holloway is one of the major colleges in which the University of London has chosen to concentrate its science teaching and research. This is reflected by the Science Faculty's excellent results in the Government's teaching and research assessment exercises and in the calibre of our students, staff and cutting-edge research activities. Indeed, on the basis of world-leading and internationally excellent research (4* and 3* standard) four of the departments in the Faculty of Science achieved top 10 rankings for their discipline across all universities in the UK in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. The results across the Faculty are impressive, reflecting the excellence of our research and this provides a very strong base for further research growth."

The top 10 departments are:

School of Biological Sciences (joint 3rd)

Department of Psychology (joint 5th)

Department of Earth Sciences (joint 7th)

Department of Geography (joint 9th)

Physics are ranked in the top 15 (3* and 4* research) and on the basis of agenda-setting, world-leading research (4*), Computer Science are ranked joint 13th.